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# Saint Praxedes Collecting the Blood of Executed Martyrs with a Sponge
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/sviataia-praksidiia-sobiraet-gubkoi-krov-kaznennykh-muchenikov/
- Published: 2022-08-02T20:06:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:38:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Art

The painting is by the seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Felice Ficherelli. It made such an impression on Vermeer that he copied it

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_7199@02-08-2022_23-06-07.jpg)